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CHAPTER XIII.
Shishak I. and the Twenty-second (Bubastite) Dynasty—The
Ethiopian Kings—The Assyrians in Egypt—Sack of
Thebes. {Circa 970-666 B.C.)
It might seem as though the name of Rameses
had power sufficient to hold together the fabric
of the state so long as the twentieth dynasty
was on the throne. With the dethronement
and exile of the Ramessid kings, all unity was
at an end. Her-hor had claimed the sovereignty
of all Egypt, but his successors ruled over a
diminishing territory, and the dominion of the
last of the priest-kings did not probably extend
much, if at all, beyond the Thebaid. Whilst
they had been reigning at Thebes, an inde-
pendent dynasty (regarded indeed by Manetho
as the twenty-first), ruled in the Delta, having
its seat at Tanis, i.e. Zoan. But the Delta had
long been the home of naturalised foreigners of
different nationalities, and amongst them were
settlers bearing Assyrian names—warlike and
Shishak I. and the Twenty-second (Bubastite) Dynasty—The
Ethiopian Kings—The Assyrians in Egypt—Sack of
Thebes. {Circa 970-666 B.C.)
It might seem as though the name of Rameses
had power sufficient to hold together the fabric
of the state so long as the twentieth dynasty
was on the throne. With the dethronement
and exile of the Ramessid kings, all unity was
at an end. Her-hor had claimed the sovereignty
of all Egypt, but his successors ruled over a
diminishing territory, and the dominion of the
last of the priest-kings did not probably extend
much, if at all, beyond the Thebaid. Whilst
they had been reigning at Thebes, an inde-
pendent dynasty (regarded indeed by Manetho
as the twenty-first), ruled in the Delta, having
its seat at Tanis, i.e. Zoan. But the Delta had
long been the home of naturalised foreigners of
different nationalities, and amongst them were
settlers bearing Assyrian names—warlike and